Runtime assurance for safety-critical systems: An introduction to safety filtering approaches for complex control systems

KL Hobbs, ML Mote, MCL Abate… - IEEE Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
More than three miles above the Arizona desert, an F-16 student pilot experienced a gravity-
induced loss of consciousness, passing out while turning at nearly 9Gs (nine times the force …

Challenges and directions for ambient intelligence: A cyber physical systems perspective

JA Stankovic, M Ma, SM Preum… - 2021 IEEE Third …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensing is becoming more and more pervasive. New sensing modalities are enabling the
collection of data not previously available. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive assistance …

Run Time Assurance for Spacecraft Attitude Control Under Nondeterministic Assumptions

M Abate, M Mote, M Dor, C Klett… - … on Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a comprehensive development and testing of a run time assurance
(RTA) filter for a torque-controlled spacecraft in free rotational motion with torque actuation …

Efficient learning of hyperrectangular invariant sets using gaussian processes

ME Cao, M Bloch, S Coogan - IEEE Open Journal of Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for efficiently computing reachable sets and forward invariant sets for
continuous-time systems with dynamics that include unknown components. Our main …

Estimating high probability reachable sets using gaussian processes

ME Cao, M Bloch, S Coogan - 2021 60th IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for computing reachable sets and forward invariant sets for systems
with dynamics that include unknown components. Our main assumption is that, given any …

Robustly forward invariant sets for mixed-monotone systems

M Abate, S Coogan - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety for dynamical systems is often posed as an invariance constraint, requiring the
system trajectory to remain in some safe subset of the state-space for all time. This note …

Deep-ultraviolet optoelectronic devices enabled by the hybrid integration of next-generation semiconductors and emerging device platforms

N Alfaraj - 2019 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
In this dissertation, the design and fabrication of deep-ultraviolet photodetectors were
investigated based on gallium oxide and its alloys, through the heterogeneous integration …

[PDF][PDF] Trajectory Tracking Runtime Assurance for Systems with Partially Unknown Dynamics

ME Cao, S Coogan - coogan.ece.gatech.edu
We consider the problem of tracking a reference trajectory for dynamical systems subject to
a priori unknown state-dependent disturbance behavior. We propose a formulation that …

[PDF][PDF] Run Time Assurance for Safety-Critical Systems

KL Hobbs, ML Mote, MCL Abate, SD Coogan… - 2021 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
More than three miles above the Arizona desert, an F-16 student pilot experienced a
gravityinduced loss of consciousness (GLOC), passing out while turning at nearly 9Gs (nine …